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Australian Journalist Saved By Google Search

Australian journalist kidnapped by Iraqi militants, John Martinkus, never thought that the search engine Google would one day save his life. Martinkus was freed by his captors on Sunday after they Googled his name on the Internet to check if he was telling the truth about his affiliation with public broadcaster SBS. His captors investigated his background on the internet to make sure he was not a contractor for the US or a CIA agent

When the Chinese government wanted to keep its users off Facebook and Google, it blocked the entire country's access to the U.S. companies' apps and sites. And when citizens started using third-party workarounds — like Tor, proxies and VPNs...